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The local contingent of our national broadcaster should be embarrassed by their lack of production expertise for our National Celebration. The monitors in Parade Square were set too low providing poor sight lines. Two of the three monitors were poor quality projection screens. There was no audio for Gord for the first 5 songs, a complete and total buzzkill . The audio/video portion froze continuously much like watching internet TV with a low bandwidth signal.
Yes, it was a free event and am grateful for the opportunity to watch it. I watched a recorded copy and the audio/video was perfect, so this was definitely a local issue. Live events are difficult to set up and difficult to fix if there is an issue, I understand that much. However, corp employees are professionals and have some of the highest paid A/V employees in the country. Setting up live feeds is what they do and Saturday night they failed miserably. —So Hard Done By
This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2016.
FYI, it may not have been our national broadcaster who was responsible for the AV. The majority out large outdoor concerts/productions are contracted out to AV companies that have the equipment for outdoor events (Projection screens and speakers). There at least 5 in Halifax, probably more.
That sucks that there was bandwidth issues though.
You should ask for your money back…